Dr. Ran Snitkovsky

I am an Assistant Professor (“Senior Lecturer”) in the Coller School of Management, Tel Aviv University. Before that I was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia Business School and Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, CUHK Shenzhen. In 2020 I received my PhD in Operations Research from the School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, during which I also spent several months as a short-term visiting scholar at Tuck School of Business. My research revolves around the modeling and methodology of strategic, social, and behavioral interactions in service (congestion-prone) systems, with a strong emphasis on economic and managerial insights. Prior to my PhD, I worked for 5 years in developing Command-and-Control algorithms for the Israeli security system.

Queueing Theory and Stochastic Systems

Game Theory and Strategic Behavior

• Refael Hassin and Ran I Snitkovsky. Social and monopoly optimization in observable queues. Operations Research, 68(4):1178–1198, 2020.

• Refael Hassin and Ran I Snitkovsky. Strategic customer behavior in a queueing system with a loss subsystem. Queueing Systems, 86(3):361–387, 2017.

Working papers

• Laurens Debo and Ran I Snitkovsky. Tipping in service systems: The role of a social norm. Tuck School of Business Working Paper, 2018. (Reject and resubmit, Management Science)

• Laurens Debo and Ran I Snitkovsky. A modeling framework for tipping in the presence of a social norm. Columbia Business School Working Paper, 2021. (Major revision, Management Science)

• Refael Hassin and Ran I Snitkovsky. On the supermarket game with finitely many servers. Columbia Business School Working Paper, 2021.

• Liron Ravner and Ran I Snitkovsky. Stochastic approximation of symmetric Nash equilibria in queueing games. Columbia Business School Working Paper, 2021. (Minor revision, Operations Research)
  
   
• Ran I Snitkovsky, Jim G Dai, and Costis Maglaras. The value of knowing drivers’ opportunity cost in ride sharing systems. Columbia Business School Working Paper, 2021.
  
   
• John Yao, Costis Maglaras, Ran I Snitkovsky, Jim G Dai, and Assaf Zeevi. Observation-driven abandonment in congested systems. Columbia Business School Working Paper, 2022.
  
   
• Jingwei Ji, Ricky Roet-Green and Ran I Snitkovsky. Foresee the Next Line: On Information Disclosure in Tandem Queues, 2022. (Submitted, Manufacturing and Service Operation Management)